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IRISH BISHOP: LATIN MASS
"LIFELESS AND MEANINGLESS"

A retired Irish
Archbishop has admitted that he found the "Mass
of All Times" to be "lifeless and meaningless".
As an adherent of the Mass that saved souls and
made saints throughout the history of the
Catholic Church --I am stunned. Someone would
literally have to have lost the faith to have
such a reaction...sadly, it seems this is not
far from the mark...
FromCatholicculture:"Bishop Edward
Daly, the retired Irish bishop who is calling for
a change in the discipline of clerical celibacy,
“was ‘deeply disappointed’ by an experience of
celebration of the Mass in Latin some years ago,
which he found ‘lifeless and somewhat
meaningless,’” according to an Irish Times report
on his newly published memoirs. Bishop Daly added
that he is “very happy with the liturgy and
language of the Mass as we now have it.”

"...if we look through Europe we shall find on the whole
that just those nations and countries have lost their faith
in the divinity of Christ, who have given up devotion to
His Mother..."
Card. Newman
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"Idolatry
is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also
by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or
alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of
spiritual corruption and cowardice."

G.K. Chesterton

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"No
one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true
socialist."
Pope Pius XI

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WHAT IS AGAINST TRUTH CANNOT BE JUST.
St Augustine

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"Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God,
that is the god of his idolatry"
Archb. Ullathorne

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"Individual liberty, freed from all bonds and all laws, all
objective and social values, is in reality only a
death-dealing anarchy."
Pope Pius XIII

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"To understand how indispensable the Eucharist is to the
practice of Christian chastity is to understand the meaning
of Christianity. When Christ told us, "Without me, you can
do nothing," He meant this to be taken literally. Without
the constant help of His grace to enlighten our darkened
minds and strengthen our weak wills, all the moral precepts
of the New Testament are so much pious rhetoric or
religious jargon."
Fr John Hardon
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"Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends
itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so
avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to
facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes
lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he
ignores truth."
Malcolm Muggeridge

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"Now, tell me whether, when you enter church to hear Mass,
you thoroughly well consider that you are going up as it
were to Calvary, to be present at the death of the
Redeemer... Wickedness is hideous at any time, and in any
place; but sins committed during the time of Mass, and
before the altar, draw down after them the curse of God."
St. Leonard-Port Maurice

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"Paganism is as old as human history. In one sentence,
paganism is a culture of untruth."

Fr John Hardon S.J.

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"That the State must be separated from the Church is a
thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error."